Your Spiritual Guidance

Riding The Storm With Fear And Faith

Imagine “Fear” as a dark creature with long fingers wearing a tattered hat. This hat covers much of his disfigured face, but his dark eyes are visible. His cold and intimidating glare is quite unnerving and if caught off guard, his appearance can stun, startle, and terrorize an unsuspecting believer.

Fear surely giggles with glee when he catches the children of God unprepared or napping, for his master has trained him well in the tactics of spiritual warfare. Satan wants believers to be ineffective and powerless. He will try everything in his power to daze and stupefy us. To dumbfound a Christian into paralysis is to create a roadblock and delay in the plans of God.

“Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and…